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Bylsma is in his second season coaching the
Coachella Valley Firebirds, Seattle's AHL affiliate. The
Firebirds are still playing in the AHL playoffs.
Bylsma, 53, won the 2009 Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh
Penguins in his first season as an NHL head coach. He was named
their interim head coach the previous February after the
dismissal of Michel Therrien, then given the job full-time
during the playoffs.
Bylsma had a 252-117-32 record in parts of six seasons leading
Pittsburgh. He was fired after the 2013-14 season and later
spent two seasons coaching the Buffalo Sabres. He is 320-190-55
in 565 games as an NHL head coach.
The Michigan native also coached the U.S. Olympic hockey team in
2014, the last Olympics where NHL players participated. The
Americans finished in fourth place.
The Kraken fired Dave Hakstol in late April after the team
missed the playoffs. Hakstol was the team's inaugural coach and
guided Seattle to one playoff berth in its first three seasons
in the league.
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